Washington, Kansas.
Typical home $135,292 (-2.8% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$397 (+127%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,936 -3%
- $139,229$135,292 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,609 +32%
- $102,684$135,292 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Washington$710
- Kansas$1,291
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Washington, KS fell 2.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Washington, Washington County, Kansas
Washington is a city of 1,071 people in Washington County. Half its households earn more than $58,438 a year and half less, against $65,482 across Washington County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Washington County was 3.8% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Washington is a small city in northern Kansas, with a population that stays modest and a layout where most trips are short. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are modest. Household incomes run below the county's, and winters are cold and fairly snowy, with summers that turn hot in July.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in farming, shops and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in town are Bradford Built, which makes truck bodies and cabs, Washington Co. Schools and Washington County Hospital. Commutes are short, and the county has seen slightly fewer jobs than a year earlier.
Things to do. Rock Creek Station is a protected area, and Alcove Springs is a waterfall, both a longer drive away. The Anna C. Diller Opera House is a theatre, also a longer drive away, and the Little Blue River is the best known of several nearby rivers and creeks, again a longer drive off.
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- 550households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 14 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washington County had 2,024 jobs in 2025, 1.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 37° and lows near 15°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 67°. About 14 inches of snow and 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Washington weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Washington
- Bradford BuiltTruck bodies and cabs manufacturing66
- Washington Co. SchoolsSchool district57FTE
- Washington County HospitalCritical access hospital45FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 134 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windVery high
- HailVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- Ice stormsRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Washington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Washington County.
Washington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Washington$135,292
- Kansas$246,055
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Washington9
Zip codes with a Washington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Washington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.